Heidi Sopinka's guest appearances

Heidi Sopinka

Shakespeare and Company: Writers, Books and Paris

Dear Seekers

Dry Clean Only: Conversations on Fashion + Style

Harriet Alida Lye

Tom McCarthy

Michael Moorcock

Colson Whitehead

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Zadie Smith

Ethan Hawke

George Saunders

Mary Norris

Johann Hari

Wallace Stevens

Naomi Klein

Jonathan Safran Foer

Carlo Rovelli

Elif Shafak

OwlTail

Claudia Dey

In this episode, fashion-insider, host Kristen Cole sits with the wildly brilliant multi-hyphenates Claudia Dey and Heidi Sopinka, founders and designers of HORSES Atelier, and accomplished authors, to indulge in some favorite fashion in fiction. Kristen gets to geek out over the fashion and prose in *must-reads* Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey and Utopia by Heidi Sopinka, and some all-time fashion moment classics in C.S. Lewis, J.D. Salinger, and Roald Dahl; while Claudia and Heidi nerd out over fashion in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, James Salter's Light Years and everyone's favorite, Anne of Green Gables. The women discuss: "fashion as a form of autobiography", the role of vintage in their friendship, design and ethos and the HORSES values set around beauty, utility, wildness and endurance. They also talk about the cosmic founding of the brand, favorite spots in Toronto "like Brooklyn without Manhattan", their atelier practice, what's on their mood boards, prairie dresses, punk dressing, wildness and rebellion, Simone de Beauvoir, Judy Chicago, swans, donkeys, amazing cocktails, dressing their characters, creativity, connecting to life through observation, clothing as "soft armor", and what they are both reading now. "Fashion can be seen as frivolous, but it's also profound and emotional." -HORSES. Kristen also touches on what she's reading (and hopes to be beach-reading soon), NYC sample sales, Palm Beach retail, fashion in context, the perfect summer necklace, the dangers of working in SoHo... and more.

In this episode, fashion-insider, host <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/kristen-cole" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kristen Cole</a> sits with the wildly brilliant multi-hyphenates <a href="https://www.claudiadey.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Claudia Dey</a> and <a href="https://www.heidisopinka.com/utopia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heidi Sopinka</a>, founders and designers of <a href="https://www.horsesatelier.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HORSES</a> Atelier, and accomplished authors, to indulge in some favorite fashion in fiction. Kristen gets to geek out over the fashion and prose in *must-reads* <a href="https://www.claudiadey.com/heartbreaker" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heartbreaker</a> by Claudia Dey and <a href="https://www.heidisopinka.com/utopia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Utopia</a> by Heidi Sopinka, and some all-time fashion moment classics in C.S. Lewis, J.D. Salinger, and Roald Dahl; while Claudia and Heidi nerd out over fashion in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, James Salter's Light Years and everyone's favorite, Anne of Green Gables. The women discuss: "fashion as a form of autobiography", the role of vintage in their friendship, design and ethos and the <a href="https://www.horsesatelier.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HORSES</a> values set around beauty, utility, wildness and endurance. They also talk about the cosmic founding of the brand, favorite spots in Toronto "like Brooklyn without Manhattan", their atelier practice, what's on their mood boards, prairie dresses, punk dressing, wildness and rebellion, Simone de Beauvoir, Judy Chicago, swans, donkeys, amazing cocktails, dressing their characters, creativity, connecting to life through observation, clothing as "soft armor", and what they are both reading now. "Fashion can be seen as frivolous, but it's also profound and emotional." -HORSES. Kristen also touches on what she's reading (and hopes to be beach-reading soon), NYC sample sales, Palm Beach retail, fashion in context, the perfect summer necklace, the dangers of working in SoHo... and more.

Episode 33: Conversation with HORSES founders, authors Claudia Dey and Heidi Sopinka 

We were joined by Heidi Sopinka for a reading from The Dictionary of Animal Languages, a thrillingly elegant yet raw evocation of a woman clawing her way to a creative life, inspired by the life of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.

Heidi Sopinka on The Dictionary of Animal Languages

From a bush cook in the Yukon to a helicopter pilot; from a travel magazine editor in Singapore to an architecture publication editor in Toronto; from an environmental columnist at the Globe to the co-founder/designer of a cult following fashion label- Horses Atelier, Heidi Sopinka has lived a life full of surprises and detours but leading to the right direction. Now looking back, writing has always been a thread connecting all the dots.The idea of her novel - the Dictionary of Animal Languages was born 12 years ago, but was being fermented all these years and didn't get published till recently. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From a bush cook in the Yukon to a helicopter pilot; from a travel magazine editor in Singapore to an architecture publication editor in Toronto; from an environmental columnist at the Globe to the co-founder/designer of a cult following fashion label- Horses Atelier, Heidi Sopinka has lived a life full of surprises and detours but leading to the right direction. Now looking back, writing has always been a thread connecting all the dots.The idea of her novel - the Dictionary of Animal Languages was born 12 years ago, but was being fermented all these years and didn't get published till recently. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Heidi Sopinka on taking detours towards the right direction